I already pretty much knew what I was going to find when I cut the old filter apart this morning given the drastic change in oil pressure I observed, however, suspicion confirmed. I noted a very thin film of that gray pasty stuff you get when breaking in a new motor covering most of the filter media...…..filter plugged.

Thu Aug 23, 2018 10:34 am

auto_god

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Re: Back in a Formula Again

Now that the new motor is all sorted out I went out with Track Addict this afternoon to see how it stood vs the old motor.

Given how much nicer to drive & more civilized this motor is, I'm very pleased to find out that its actually quicker too!

Note that I've modified the tach to show distance travelled rather than RPM.

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Wed Sep 12, 2018 2:00 pm

auto_god

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Re: Back in a Formula Again

auto_god wrote:

That is the cleanest this car has ever tested!! I'm pleased all of my hard work building the new motor, putting it in the car and tuning it achieved what it was supposed to! Very happy I get to drive my baby for 2 more years now (maybe they'll scrap the etest in the meantime!)

A little annoyed at all the work and expense I had to go through in order to pass only to have the program scrapped, but on the upside I would expect that classic cars in the 1988 to 1996 timeframe will become more desirable now that the owners won't have to deal with emission testing anymore.

Sun Sep 30, 2018 7:43 am

chevypower91

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Re: Back in a Formula Again

I know. Never saw it coming. Glad that they decided to scrap it.

auto_god wrote:

auto_god wrote:

That is the cleanest this car has ever tested!! I'm pleased all of my hard work building the new motor, putting it in the car and tuning it achieved what it was supposed to! Very happy I get to drive my baby for 2 more years now (maybe they'll scrap the etest in the meantime!)

A little annoyed at all the work and expense I had to go through in order to pass only to have the program scrapped, but on the upside I would expect that classic cars in the 1988 to 1996 timeframe will become more desirable now that the owners won't have to deal with emission testing anymore.

Mon Oct 01, 2018 5:29 pm

auto_god

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Re: Back in a Formula Again

auto_god wrote:

Corp Z wrote:

This thread is still solid gold. Sadly theres no one left to see it. Cant wait to see the rest

I suspect that there are still a lot of lurkers as the views of this thread are currently in excess of 55,000.

Now up to 63,000 views.....clearly there are lots of people on here still, sadly none of them care to post anything!

Sun Oct 21, 2018 8:19 am

auto_god

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Re: Back in a Formula Again

Given that the amount of time I've been able to be out enjoying the car has diminished to almost nothing, I've been spending some free time here and there working on bringing the original engine back to life.

On the question of the cylinder heads though, I'm trying to decide whether to leave them in their original form, or give them a mild port/clean up job before installing them. Given that the rest of the engine has been returned to original, I'm leaning towards leaving them original as well just with a clean/paint job, new seals etc.

Mon Jan 28, 2019 7:43 am

auto_god

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Re: Back in a Formula Again

Woohoo! The first shakedown cruise of the year is always so enjoyable!

I was pretty happy it cranked up first turn of the key, warmed up and drove absolutely perfectly for the entire trip. I had basically just pulled the cover over it last November and not done anything to it until I fired it up this morning (other than leaving the trickle charger on).

Hopefully this spring is less eventful than last spring was (a fuel pump failure followed by an engine swap!) I`d be quite content to just be able to just enjoy it this year.

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